1. 1995 ALPHA KAPPA DELTA UNDERGRADUATE PAPER AWARD WINNER.
- Author
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Loe, Meika
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GENDER role in the work environment , *HUMAN sexuality , *GENDER identity , *SEXUAL harassment , *WORK environment , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This article examines the dynamics of Bazoorns, a "restaurant" in which powers gender, and sexuality come together to color relations between the three major "players" involved: waitresses, managers, and customers- Job-based power relations and inequities, gender roles, implicit and explicit sexual roles, and sexual harassment are all "at work" in such a workplace. But definitions of power, gender roles, sexual identities, and harassment are in constant flux with each interaction among the players inside the Bazooms world. The women who work at Bazooms-the "Bazooms girls"-are disadvantaged iii these interactions, but they are not helpless. Dynamics within the restaurant are constantly being negotiated and altered (within constraints) as these women exercise agency in the workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 1996